[3] However, the Army Air Forces found that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were not well adapted to the training mission.

[4] The 2d OTU and its components were disbanded and replaced at Homestead by the 563d AAF Base Unit, which continued the transport training mission for the remainder of the war.

[1][6] As Military Air Transport Service increasingly moved its airlift operations from the central United States to the coasts and the Skymaster was withdrawn from service, the squadron moved to Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina in February 1956 and began to operate Lockheed C-121 Constellations.

[1][7] On 3 April 1996, 76th Boeing CT-43 Bobcat (Flight IFO-21) crashed on approach to Dubrovnik Airport, Croatia, while on an official trade mission.

Air Force Technical Sergeant Shelly Kelly survived the initial impact, but died en route to hospital.